How to Setup a Rehearsal Studio

[@PatFlanigan]

TIMESTAMPS: Finding the right spot: 1:20 Basic acoustic treatment: 2:19 Useful gear to have handy: 2:46 Jam space layout: 4:15 Monitoring your rehearsals: 5:11 Recording your rehearsals: 6:50 Gear sharing, management & scheduling: 7:54

[@joshualoveless20]

Is Pee Wee a Schnoodle? He looks like my Dog Benson except Benson is Blond or "Apricot". Great Video! Keep on Rocking in the Free World!....or what's left of it!

[@PatFlanigan]

Thanks Joshua! Peewee is a Coton de Tulear!

[@ExposingEvil_]

I subbed right when you said, "I could use the watch time," I like the honesty :)

[@daleplay1978]

FINALLY! A well-explained video on how to do this... Thank you so much! You have a new subscriber and will watch other videos for sure.

[@colorato6]

I just surfed across this video and it was totally helpful. I'm in a band where we have a tight rehearsal space. We do face one another so we can become one, With that being said, the noise level is way to high, the drummer pounds like he's at Red Rocks, Lead guitarist knows his stuff, complains about how loud everything is, the singer is still looking up the lyrics on the web, and i'm wondering if this band can even play at a friends B-day party. No one wants to take control of rehearsals, (scared of hurting feelings i believe). We run through songs and never really get them tight, My question is: How can I convey to them that I really want this band to work? Without putting any demand out there?

[@ravindeer-Goodman]

What I do is just say, why are we here? We want to perform right? Do well? We need to change how this is going...

[@JaviXT]

Please make a video on recording rehearsals!! I'm thinking of having everything mic'd up, mixer, to recorder(like tascam field recorder). Or mixer to audio interface to daw. I'm having a difficult time finding videos on the best way to go about this. Either way, thank you!

[@adamsofunneh9926]

Xevier T yess pls do this video!

[@PatFlanigan]

Getting a new reharsal spot soon, so I’ll be able to make this video eventually

[@impactmusic6009]

If all the audio is going into the mixer just use the line out into your phone or into your computer to record it on a daw

[@redlightclinicdrummer]

Can you make a video in how to have band rehearsal with just your headphones running out your interface and what you should do in your daw to get the best sound

[@bileshake]

I've been doing this setup for seems like 30yrs and we just realized in the context of live rehearsing with monitors and heafty volume, the value of 'pointing your amp at yourself'. Stop battling to hear your guitar over dual cymbal crashes and bass amps with tweeters pointed in your direction.

[@davidgoode7416]

Excellent advice, thanks

[@DumpsterGremlins]

WHERE ARE YOURE SUBSCRIBERS?? This video is amazing!

[@impactmusic6009]

I subscribed because you mentioned what you do. So thanks!

[@adammadtin8451]

Where do you guys store your gig bags and cases during rehearsals and auditions?

[@gmschwartz07]

Thank you. This was helpful.

[@kadecooper6967]

I’m on my last two years of audio college looking to buy a house and set one up either in a garage or bedroom

[@georgeavouris8539]

Very helpful. Great job amigo

[@PaulLaurinD]

Where is the panel diy link?

[@TheAnalyticalObservers]

I bought a ton of remnants from a carpet store, and I bought foam from from Amazon, all for a couple hundred bucks

[@jc_nilsson]

Thanks for the video! I realized we already do most things of the stuff so it was nice to sort of have it "confirmed" :) but, we have problem.. when we practice only using the amps with the vocals out in the power monitors, it's impossible to make every bandmember hear every instrument clearly. It sort of becomes a "soup". It's probably because our rehearsal is too small, I guess.

[@darrylday30]

I rehearse in a small space and we’ve all switched to small amps tipped up or on stands placed close to each performer. I play keys and I switched to small Bose S1 on a stand at ear level just over my shoulder. Drummer is using and electric kit with his own amp over his shoulder. I can hear myself and everyone else perfectly. Small tube amps sound fantastic in a small space without the need to crank it up. If you get the volume down, the mud will go down with it.

[@jc_nilsson]

@@darrylday30 thanks for sharing your experience :) We have an acoustic drumset. But we actually solved it this weekend by hooking everything up to a mixer and used in ear monitors instead. Well, it's not a beautiful sound but at least easy to hear everything😂 We are thinking of having "coffee sessions" at the drummers apartment where he have his electric drumset, to save money from renting a rehearsal.

[@Celticlight6]

thank you for this nice video! I've got a problem with my Mikrophon for vocals and the PA. there is always the problem with feedback. whether I'm not loud enough or too loud so the pa gets feedback. we prefer to play loud but i always struggle with this. do your got any tips on where to stand or where to place the pa or how to set up the vocals in the mixer? Also I'm singing clean an scream sometimes

[@CoAkomusic]

Watching this high af and I live in Oklahoma how you know😳

[@soccertavo]

Why is do you stress that a jam space must have carpet floors and not concrete

[@gunnarmarks5754]

Carpet will absorb the sound and concrete will reflect it

[@Mindartcreativity]

What volume do you play at during practice that you need to mic? My band plays really loud (with hear protection of course!) close to 100dB. Should we start micing amps and drums or would the effort not be worth it as we already play loud?

[@PatFlanigan]

I think it depends what you're working towards. If you're going to play in smaller venues where there's minimal monitoring, I wouldn't bother micing everything... If you're playing live with a full in-ear setup, then I'd almost always practice with in-ears too. I would also tend towards in-ears during composition sessions just 'cause I like to hear everything really well. It's all a matter of context and preference!

[@PaulLaurinD]

Can you elaborate on carpet and wall panels? I have hard wood floors, 3 walls are painted wood paneling and one brick wall.

[@PatFlanigan]

This is all in an effort to avoid build up of frequencies as they bounce on all those hard surfaces. That's why we treat mixing rooms and studios.

[@PaulLaurinD]

@@PatFlanigan nice. Put in a sweet carpet and going to put up sound absorbing panels soon. It already made a difference. Thanks brother

[@nexus882]

How big do you recommend a jam space be for a full band? Been looking in the 120-150 square foot range and wondering if that's enough

[@KyTaundry]

That's huge! More than enough.

[@SamFolkman]

Can you do a video on IEM I love your philosophy

[@PatFlanigan]

For sure! Been wanting to make one for a while!

[@mattspencer4735]

Hi thanks for the helpful video, could u link/list which mixing console, headphone amplifier. Thanks

[@PatFlanigan]

Sure thing mate! Here's my mixer: amzn.to/2XSy1r9 Here's my headphone amp: amzn.to/3dVkRzc

[@mattspencer4735]

Pat Flanigan cool thanks a lot, so I’m in a 5 piece rock band, drums, 2 guitars 1 bass 1 vocals, and we would like to get an in ear monitor system for rehearsing so we can hear the vocals clearer, so firstly we would need to mic everything and then mic cables go into mixing console, then we would mix and into the headphone amplifier. However I am confused by the extension cables going to each member so that they can hear the live mix of us playing, would each member need in ear earphones or could we use headphones which would go into the headphone amplifier

[@wilburh2m]

If the drummer is loud then the amps are loud and everything gets blown out -teue “Dynamics” means nothing at jet engine 110Db volume in a small space if head/ear phones are the volume baffles. Most musicians I know are deaf and hate playing w headphones and would rather bitch about sound quality rather than just turn their fucking amps down. Small rooms are a mixing nightmare and I cant see how your tiny space ever gets a balanced sound without earphones (which means your final mix is literally in each of your heads while the room sounds crappy and way too loud).

[@Figs1999]

Can you please make a more in depth video about recording your bands rehearsals please, as of right now I am just recording a voice memo and letting it run lol decent but horrible mix as expected

[@PatFlanigan]

Would love to, but my studio was demolished and all the rehearsal studios are closed right now because of the COVID-19 situation. But the minute I have access to a studio I’ll make one.